BIB_ID
329173
Accession number
MA 4724.233
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1860] Mar. 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
A postscript is dated "Monday" which extends the date of writing from March 10 through March 12.
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to George D. Smith. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
The year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed with the Cornhill Magazine crest.
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to George D. Smith. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
The year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed with the Cornhill Magazine crest.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Regretting that he cannot approve a poem that is being considered for the Cornhill Magazine; saying "It [Manoli. A Moldo-Wallachian Legend by Wathen Mark Wilks Call] has uncommonly good lines--But there are reasons I think why in its present state it would not be agreeable to very many of our readers. The name of Allah used lightly I will always object to. I doubt whether the public will bear being told that God is the author of evil: whether the sweet Wife in the description is not somewhat too sensual a bedfellow.--The poem's so good I should not like to offer to geld: and without that operation I Don't think we ought to use it."
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